2-year-old beaten, mother’s boyfriend arrested

A 2-year-old Renton girl has life-threatening injuries and traumatic brain trauma after she was beaten by her mother’s boyfriend, according to police.

The girl is now in Harborview Medical Center – the region’s top trauma center – after first being brought to Valley Medical Center Saturday afternoon.

The 30-year-old man suspected of beating her said she was hurt in an accident, Renton police spokeswoman Penny Bartley told our news partner, KOMO/4. The man is not her father, according to police reports.

He was arrested Sunday after Port of Seattle police allegedly found him, the injured girl’s mother and the couple’s 11-day-old daughter trying to fly out of Sea-Tac International Airport.

The man was booked Monday night into the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent on investigation of child abuse and for violating probation.

He had been taking care of the 2-year-old, who was not his child. The mother, whom the man recently had a daughter with, was staying with relatives and in the hospital, Bartley told KOMO/4.

The Seattle P-I is not naming the man because he has not been charged. Prosecutors are expected to file charges later this week.

Court records show the man, a New York native, has a history of domestic violence.

In 2006, he was found guilty of violating a domestic violence court order – a gross misdemeanor. The man also was found guilty that year of two other gross misdemeanors: harassment and fourth-degree assault.

The mother of the 11-day-old girl is not in custody, but police said the girl has been taken by Child Protective Services.